Steam-cooker.



No. 629,320. Patented .luly I8, I899.

6. BALL.

STEAM COOKER.

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C. BALL.

STEAI COOKER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORTLAND BALIJ, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA,ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO W'ILLIAM D- LEWIS, OF SAME PLACE.

STEAM -COOKER.

SPECIFIGA TION'forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,320, earthly is, 1899.

' Application filed February; 24, 1899. serial No. 706,668. (No model.)

.class in which several articles of food of a difierent nature may be prepared at the same time-as, for instance, meat and vegetables or puddings and the like -without any of the articles imparting its odor to the others; and the object is to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efficiency and usefulness of the device.

A further object is to free the house from steam and objectionable kitchen odors. I attain this object by means of; an escape-flue, whereby the same will pass into the fire-box, where it will be consumed by the fire.

To these ends the invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the several elements of the device, as will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings the same reference characters indicate the same parts of the invention.

1 Figure 1 is a vertical section of my improved steam food-cooker. Fig. 2 is a section Online 2 2. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the cover detached. Fig. '5 is a perspective view, partly in section, of the foodchamber detached with covers removed. Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of the false bottom of the cooker.

1 denotes a cylindrical sheet-metal vessel provided with a vertical flue 2 and having the usual hinged bail-handle 3, and 4 denotes a bottom guard removably secured to the outside of the vessel by an encompassing flange '5, so as to form a horizontal air-space 6 between the guard and the bottom of the vessel, as shown, and it is provided with an orifice 7, which is alined with the vertical flue in the vessel 1.

8 denotes the removable cover, provided with a grip-handle, as shown, andit-s continuous flange 9 extends downwardinside of the vessel and rests upon the bottom thereof.

10 denotes a foraminous false bottom having a circumferential flange 11, which rests upon the bottom of the vessel 1 inside of the cover-flange 9, and it is provided with anori- 6o fice 12 to receive the vertical flue2.

13 denotes the cylindrical food-receptacle, formed with a foraininous bottom 14 and legs 15 15 15, which support it at the proper position in the vessel 1. 16 16 16- denote its removable covers,and the cover 16 and forarninous bottom are provided withalined orifices 16 14:, through which the vertical flue 2 extends. Each of these covers is provided with a slot 16*; which allows the heated gases to escape from the corresponding receptacle, and these slots may also be employed to receive an ordinary lifter to manipulate the covers with.

The food-receptacle is provided with three radial partitions 17 17 17, which divide it into three separate or independent food-chambers 181818 and in which the food to be cooked is placed.

It is to be understood that the food-recep- 8o tacle may be made with one or more foodchambers. Ihave shown three, because I consider that number the most desirable.

In operation a suitable quantity of water is placed in the vessel 1 and the food placed in the food-chambers. It is to be understood that one of the lids of the stove is to be removed and the cooker placed on the hole in such a position that the exit end of the flue will be so that the steam and odor which eso cape from the covered food-chambers will pass unobstructed into the stove.

In boiling an article larger than could be contained in one of the food-chambers or when it is desired to boil several articles the 5 receptacle 13 is removed and the articles placed upon the false bottom 10, which prevents the food from sticking to the bottom of the vessel 1. I

The accompanying drawings show my in- 10o cover, and the cylindrical food-receptacle formed with separate compartments, one of i5 which is provided with orifices to permit the passage of said flue, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit- 2o nesses.

CORTLAND BALL.

\Vitnesses:

FRANK A. JACOB, WM. L. LIGHTFORD. 

